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Laurel and hardy movies with chris tucker
Laurel and hardy movies with chris tucker










laurel and hardy movies with chris tucker
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Ice Cube and Epps have such a great rapport on screen that it would have been nice to see them sit back and exchange witty dialogue. Craig and Day-Day for example spend too much time chasing after the ghetto Santa or being chased by hooligans and not enough smoking weed. The two protagonists, with their perfected bickering and their constant teasing of each other, have made their mark in film history. And while he achieves the campy ’70 look he was aiming for you may leave the theater thinking too much happened between Thursday and Saturday. Their very first film together was The Fortune Cookie, and their latest was The Odd Couple 2, but their best-known film is probably Grumpy Old Men. Raboy‘s style here is similar to a music video that is fast paced bordering on frenetic. So while the films have some common thematic elements such as having to come up with cash in 24 hours (usually followed by an “or else”) or being terrorized by a neighborhood bully they differ in look and style.

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While all three installments of the Friday series were scripted and produced by Ice Cube Friday After Next marks video director Marcus Raboy‘s feature film directorial debut.

laurel and hardy movies with chris tucker

This time around Witherspoon has made his character Mr. While the film has some new faces it also has familiar ones like the return of John Witherspoon in the role of Craig’s father. Williams‘ diminutive size doesn’t hamper the stand-up comedian-turned-actor’s performance as he prances around the strip mall like he’s a big man on campus.

laurel and hardy movies with chris tucker

A hilarious new edition to Friday After Next is Katt Williams in the role of Money Mike who runs the Pimp N’ Ho’s clothing store. Together Epps and Ice Cube who also collaborated together on All About the Benjamins fit neatly like a sort of urban Laurel and Hardy. Epps made his first appearance as Day-Day in Next Friday after Chris Tucker who starred as Craig’s original sidekick Smokey in Friday left. Ice Cube‘s Craig is still the most reasonable Jones of the clan and his character’s levelheadedness strikes a nice balance between him and Epps‘ motor mouth character Day-Day. The best thing about Friday After Next is the terrific character acting by the cast. Don’t expect the staple marijuana humor here either it has been replaced with raunchy R-rated dialogue instead. Friday After Next has some great lines but it’s mediocre compared to its predecessors. Bar-B-Q restaurant with the slogan “Tastes so good makes you wanna slap yo’ mama.” Day-Day’s rent-a-cop antics eventually land the duo in some hot water resulting in yet another action-packed Friday. “The ghetto ” Craig commiserates “is the only place where you can get fried by Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.” To avoid getting evicted–and possibly roughed up by the landlady’s newly paroled son Damon ( Terry Crews)–the two get jobs as security guards at a local strip mall where their uncle Elroy runs Bros. Craig ( Ice Cube) wakes up in the wee hours of Christmas Eve to find a scrawny Santa stealing the contents of his and his cousin Day-Day’s ( Mike Epps) apartment including Christmas presents and the rent money. But the money has run out in Friday After Next and the clock ticks down once again on another Friday in the ‘hood.

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Here are some of the most memorable unlikely buddy duos throughout the ages.In the last Friday movie the Jones family won the million-dollar lotto jackpot and left the ‘hood for Beverly Hills. Sometimes human, sometimes Wookiee, and most of the time, endearing. Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello and Matthau and Lemon have been pervasive throughout American cinema history. Male buddy duos have been a part of celluloid history since its inception. Male-bonding films didn’t start with Pineapple Express or The Hangover and they certainly won't end there. But, as Shakespeare wrote: “There is nothing new under the sun.” Indeed, the same is true is Hollywood. You’d think male buddy films were a novel concept, only recently unearthed. Where else can men safely grow emotionally attached to one another without any stigma? The Los Angeles Times called this genre "a necessary escapist fantasy" for men. This influx of bro films demonstrates that depictions of “boys being boys” is still wildly popular among all ages and genders, even in a post-feminist era. This summer, Hollywood is bringing us Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in The Internship, Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx in White House Down and even Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer as the classic Wild West duo in The Lone Ranger. Male buddy films are some of the most popular movies around. Photo: Phil Bray/Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises












Laurel and hardy movies with chris tucker